Her second reaction, beyond the knee-jerk fear, was to use her power to start shutting mine down.
Wait, you meant you put a swarm on Amy? She’s got touch range to the bugs, that’s way closer than I was imagining.
“Idiot,” I hissed the word.
Seriously, Taylor, what are you even doing? Are you going to put decoys around, make it a shell game?
You’re not selling the “trust me and stop fighting me” very well.
“What?” Tattletale asked.
“I’m trying to save her life, and she’s turning my power against me.”
Really, Taylor, look at what you just did from Amy’s perspective.
Two ways this would go. Either she clued in that I was trying to help, or she died. I was really hoping it wouldn’t be the latter. I didn’t like her, but she didn’t deserve to die.
I do!
So maybe make it a little bit clearer to her what you’re doing.
There were very few people in the world who deserved to die like this.
That’s true, even in a world like the Wormverse.